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I have a soft spot for Feyerabend...
> You took a class with Feyerabend. What was he like? Feyerabend was not one of my favorite professors, but he was a very distinctive professor. He was teaching Ancient Philosophy. He would just sit on the stage at the front of the lecture hall, rambling for the whole period about relativism and the presocratics. It wasn’t so bad, but I don’t think we learned much from him. We never did manage to get to Aristotle in that class. The TA’s had to assign the grades because, I was told, Feyerabend was not allowed to assign grades anymore, since he would just write “A” on the top of the grade sheet and an arrow all the way down. One time, a student had died during the semester but still got an A from Feyerabend. Feyerabend reportedly said, “Well, he would have gotten an A.”
November 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Nietzschean affirmation
Friedrich Nietzsche giving the thumbs up
November 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Liljeholmen
November 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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The folks on wikiquote.org haven't located the source either. Doesn't really fit with Arendt's thinking.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Hannah_Arendt
October 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Kant detecting a whiff of moral heteronomy
September 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
csteinbach.bsky.social
ChatGPT attempting the impossible
Gas → power → tariff. The invasion detonated European gas prices, which set the marginal price of electricity in many markets. Public chargers that buy power on wholesale rates saw costs jump; many responded with per-kWh price rises, spot-price pass-throughs, or temporary energy surcharges. Billing followed the bill. From crisis to clocks. To use less gas, grids leaned harder on demand-response and time-of-use pricing. Chargers, ever obedient to the grid’s moods, adopted off-peak discounts, peak adders, and dynamic tariffs, all of which show up directly in how a session is billed. Rules tighten the till. Energy security angst helped speed EU-level pushes for transparent, per-kWh pricing and card-present payment at public chargers. Result: clearer receipts, session fees unbundled from energy fees, and fewer mysterious per-minute charges—billing by statute as much as by strategy.
September 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Uniquely human.
What You *Cannot* (and Should Not) Automate **Lateral Thinking & Imagination**: The core of stressor analysis is human creativity and the willingness to be “wrong.” AI can assist, but the leap of imagination to connect “a war in Ukraine” to “EV charger billing” is uniquely human.
September 6, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Identical twins in Denmark rn
Highlander: there can be only one
September 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Stockholm, Sergels Torg
May 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Just starting to read about the "War of the currents". Seems relevant to our times: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_...
An Unrestrained Demon Judge, October 26, 1889 Overhead wires crisscross the sky like a web. A grotesque lightbulb with a skull-like glow dangles ominously above the street. Below, a policeman flees in terror—his truncheon lost—while a woman collapses and bystanders scatter in panic. The suggestion is that electricity, newly unleashed and poorly understood, is a force of mortal peril.
May 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Nice!

fyi, the LaTeX isn't rendering for me
May 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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A food mill.

Repost with something you own that most people don't.
May 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Scientists have finally discovered the coffee maker!
A Guardian article: Secret to stronger pour-over coffee with no extra beans unlocked by scientists Pouring water slowly, steadily and from height is key to achieving ‘avalanche’ mixing effect
April 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Sure, but isn't the appeal of "what doesn't kill you" inversely proportionate to kill zone proximity?

In other words, better for who?
Picture of a recent Guardian article by Simon Jenkins entitled, "Donald Trump is moving fast and breaking things, but that may result in a better US"
March 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Not sure about this. Apple crumble in a sauce of rum soaked, minced raisins.
March 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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A banner tow plane towing the message "We are currently clean on OPSEC"
March 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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This is Zebbe. Same dog as in my profile picture.
Same dog as in my profile picture but a couple of years older.
March 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Sure, but have you experienced issues running through the US border wearing an amusing costume?
Two article titles in close proximity from the Guardian: "Have you experienced any issues at the US border recently?" "Have you completed a running event wearing an amusing costume?"
March 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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The "fat ladies". Liljeholmen during sunrise.
March 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Matthew McConaughey/ Wittgenstein
February 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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My daughter got the finishing touches in.
December 15, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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After a week long maceration of the fruit, a three hour bake, and two weeks feeding with rum, finally the marzipan and icing are on.

And now the difficult bit: decoration.
December 15, 2024 at 11:40 AM
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His hand looks ok on this one. Might be real.
Arthur Rimbaud in Sweden
November 22, 2024 at 5:54 PM